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STARLETTER #88 FORCE TM the Official Star Fleet Battles Newsletter March 1994 $2 GAMES TASK STARLETTER #88 FORCE TM The Official Star Fleet Battles Newsletter March 1994 $2 GAMES S2 AT THE PRINTERS ANNOUNCEMENTS The long-awaited second scenario module has been On a space-available basis, Starletter will announce events finished, with 53 scenarios and 2 campaigns. Of the scenarios, of interest to SFB players, including conventions, local tourna- 30 are entirely new; 23 are updated classics. ments, PBM campaigns, club meetings, special store events, etc. The following playtest scenarios were used in S2. We do not ADB and TFG make no warranty as to the quality, reliability, or need further playtest reports on these scenarios. SP66 Red, reputation of any item announced. Send your announcements to White, and Blue; SP148 Ice Monster; SP233 Circle the Echelon; Amarillo Design Bureau. Please get them in as early as possible. SP292 Disrupted Repair; SP396 The Tortoise and the Hares; Readers should include a stamped self-addressed envelope SP461 Operation Achilles; SP518 Metamorph; SP535 Rescue when requesting information from listed events. the Supply Tug; SP646 Gremlins; SP673 Tricked; SP892 Race to ➤ ORIGINS 94 will be in San Jose California on 7-10 July. the Base; SP1092 Kroal’s War; SP1273 Last Fling; SP1284 SFB, F&E, and Prime Directive championships. Info from Gama, Pirate Stew; SP1285 Longshot; SP1286 Tug of War; SP1302 P O Box 3100, Kent, OH 44240. or 1-800-529-EXPO. Faulty Logic; SP1331 Desperate Days; SP1380 Interrupted ➤ GENCON 94, 18-21 August. Mostly RPGs, but does Exchange; SP1506 Hornet’s Sting; SP1534 A Double Surprise; include the largest SFB event outside of Origins. Prime Directive SP1925 Rebel Reduction; SP1933 Pressing the Advantage; National Championships. Info from P O Box 756, Lake Geneva SP1934 The Sally; TP11 LDR Commander. WI 53147. (They promised a better room this year, with lights!) ➤ MADISON GAMES CON, 14-15 May, Edgewood High NEW SHIP FOR STAR FLEET BATTLES School, 2219 Monroe St, Madison WI. Sanctioned SFB. Info (R11.908) LYRAN DWV: The Lyrans produced this small carrier from: Ken Rotar, 1140 Morraine View #106, Madison WI 53719. for use in security missions (e.g., convoy escorts) but often were ➤ KING-CON II, 8-10 July, Saint John NB. Sanctioned SFB forced to use it for mainline combat due to the shortage of other tournament. Info from Timothy Walton, 100 Wright Street Apt. #1, Lyran carriers. First prototype Y176, in regular service Y177. 1+2 Saint John NB E2K 3Z2 Canada. spare shuttles, docking 5, Explosion 12; includes plus refit. ➤ PARADOXICON II, 21-22 May, Ottawa. Sanctioned SFB. F&E: Allowed one substitution (for DW) and one DWV Info: Carleton Univ Strategy Club, c/o Student’s Association, conversion (from DW, 2 points) per year starting in 4 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6. ➤ Y178. Does not count against CV limit in (711.0). 3-6 SPOKANE GAMEFAIR: 22-24 April. Sanctioned SFB. Info Merlin’s, North 1 Browne, Spokane WA 99201 509-624-0957. Normal escort group is one FFA or DWA. Command DWV ➤ rating 5. (The Gorns have an operationally identical 2 ■■■ STAR FLEET WARLORD: Agents of Gaming operates this ship, the BDV; use the same rules and factors.) 1-3 play-by-mail strategic SFB campaign in the Greater Magellanic Cloud. Buy ships to search for (or conquer, or defend) resources needed to buy even more (and bigger) ships. For a rulebook SCANNERS REPORT (with no obligation to play), send $5 for postage and handling to ★ CAPTAIN’S LOG #14, another in the best-selling series. Agents of Gaming, P.O. Box 31571, Dayton, OH 45431-0571. Includes a complete cross-index of the SFB rules, listing the ➤ LONGEST-RUNNING SFB PLAY-BY-MAIL CAMPAIGN. It interactions between 36 key systems. Also the usual great fiction, began in 1985 and is now in Turn #52, Y191 in the middle of the scenarios, tactics, F&E, Warlord, Missions, PD, and more! $9.95 Andro Invasion. Join us! Send a stamped self-addressed enve- Stock #5710. CL#14 is already in stores near you! lope to John D Berg, 1802 Cora St, Crest Hill, IL 60435. ★ MODULE S2: Includes 53 scenarios and the stunning ➤ STARLIST (a list of known SFB players) is available from asteroid field map. $11.95, Stock #5707. Task Force. Send $1 and a stamped self-addressed envelope. ★ GRADUATION EXERCISE: Prime Directive adventure They hopefully will have someone within driving range for you. including GM screen with all of the charts needed to run the ➤ NEW RACES are currently in development; at least one game. $7.95, Stock #5802. should see release this year. The “J-Race” are galactic gypsies, ★ MODULE X1 is in development for Origins release. Expect an old race with very unusual ships and a new weapon, the warp- some major changes resulting from playtesting. X-ships won’t augmented railgun. Down on the glactic rim, the “V-race” is have Aegis, will have one big phaser capacitor (instead of carving out a niche for itself with their ability to control “weather” several little ones), and won’t be able to fire overloads as rapid around their system (or any star system they want to grab). pulse. More scenarios need testing! ➤ Marshal of the USSR Nikolai V Ogarkov (NCC–1763) died ★ COMING THIS YEAR: CL#15, Module X1, Module Y, and 25 Jan at the age of 76 after a long illness. Ogarkov, as Chief of perhaps something special. PD: Hidden Agenda, Lost on Andor, the General Staff, reorganized the Soviet Army in the late 70s. Uprising!, Deck Plans of a SAMS, Prime Adventures #1. F&E: ➤ FREE ERRATA BOOK, listing all errata and typos for SFB, Advanced Operations. is available from TFG. Send a 9x12 envelope with 52¢ US postage to receive yours! (Canadians must provide 63¢ US SO YOU WANT TO PLAYTEST? postage or two IRCs. Foreigners include four IRCs.) Don’t write in and ask if you can playtest. Write in with the ➤ BRITISH police raided a suspected London “gambling reports on stuff you have already playtested. Include a reply den” on 27 Jan only to discover that the people were playing envelope for an evaluation of your efforts. If you are good at it, various boardgames and wargames, not gambling. One officer you’ll find a new “unpublished” assignment in your envelope. asked “What? These people play games for no money?” Module P1: SP64. Module P2: SP270, TP8. Module P3: SP109, SP278, SP336, SP344, SP1281. TASK FORCE NEWS Module P4: SP324, SP510, SP864, SP1064. ✪ CRUSADE, 128-page Starfire scenario book based on the Module MO#2, CL#13, CL#14: All of them. Theban War, new tech systems, boarding combat. #6005 $13.95 CL#12. All of them. SP225(A) should use three D4s against ✪ STAR FLEET 2300 miniatures are now expected to return four PCs. SP248 and SP225 have no T-bombs for the Tholians. in May or June of 1994; first pack has Fed CA, D7, WE, Thol PC. NEW SCENARIO FOR STAR FLEET BATTLES (SP247.0) FAST AND FURIOUS (SP247.44) REFITS: The Lyran DWV has the power pack. The Lyran DWA has full aegis, the power pack, and the plus refit. (Y177) by Stephen V Cole, Texas None of the Kzinti ships have refits. (SP247.45) DOCKED: The Kzinti DWV and FCR are docked at During heavy fighting, the Kzinti DWV Fast Cluster burned the start of the scenario. Study (C13.9) carefully regarding this up its fighter group in a series of three battles, transferring the condition. last survivors (including the spares) to a larger carrier. The Fast (SP247.46) KZINTI FIGHTERS, DRONES: There are 12 Kzinti Cluster then pulled back to pick up a replacement squadron from HAAS fighters on the FCR. Of these: the FCR 223. Because the Fast Cluster was needed for an two have been transferred to the DWV and placed in the impending operation, the 223 was ordered to meet it immediately spare fighter storage bays. These cannot be made behind the front lines. ready for combat during the scenario, but do have an The link-up of the two Kzinti ships was detected by a Lyran effect on the victory conditions. scout, and the Lyrans dispatched a strike force to attack and two have been transferred to the DWV, made ready for flight, destroy the Kzintis. and fully armed with drones and chaff. two have been transferred to the DWV, made ready for flight, (SP247.1) NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2; the Kzinti player and the but have not been armed with drones or chaff. Lyran player. two are on the FCR. These (like the four above) were made ready for flight as the FCR came forward (a risky and (SP247.2) INITIAL SET UP dangerous gamble) but have no drones or chaff loaded. TERRAIN: None. Open space. two are on the FCR but are not quite ready. They can be KZINTI: DWV Fast Cluster in 3505, heading A, speed 0, WS–I. made ready using four deck crew actions each, but FCR 223 in 3505, heading A, WS–I. The Fast Cluster and have no drones or chaff loaded. Note that the DWV has 223 are docked at the start of the scenario. See more deck crews than the FCR (which has two). (SP247.46) regarding the status of fighters. These ships two are on the FCR but are still stored as cargo and cannot were published in CL#14. be made ready during this scenario. They could be AFF 221 in 3208, heading E, speed 5, WS–II. transferred to the DWV for victory purposes. LYRAN: DWV Furious Hunter (8x Z-V) and DWA Outguard arrive the FCR had 35 type–I medium speed drones; 10 type–VI during Impulse #1, Turn #1, in hexes 0124 and 0126 medium speed drones; and 10 spaces of chaff, pods, respectively, speed max, heading B, WS–III.
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